Departmental Consultants

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many  (a) businesses and  (b) individuals provided consultancy services to his Department in each of the last three years; and what the top 10 contracts by monetary value were in each case.

Kevan Jones: The Ministry of Defence does not hold this information centrally. Summaries for the years 1995-96 to 2007-08 of total MOD expenditure on External Assistance, of which consultancy is a part, is available in the Library of the House.
	The Defence Analytical Services Agency (DASA) publishes a list of companies paid £5 million or more in each year within their UK Defence Statistics. This information can be found at:
	 2005-06
	http://www.dasa.mod.Uk/natstats/ukds/2006/c1/table116.html
	 2006-07
	http://www.dasa.mod.uk/natstats/ukds/2007/cl/table118.html
	 2007-08
	http://www.dasa.mod.uk/UKDS2008/cl/tablel18.html